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Spectrum Conductor

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Spark log retrieval

Conductor 2.5 log retrieval feature back porting to Conductor 2.4.1. That is, to allow specifying arbitrary limit for number of executors to lookup in the RESTful call to retrieve specific executor log by its executor's id only.
about 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 0 Future consideration

Dashboard cluster utilization report

Need for a better, configurable dashboard, that communicates the (usable) slots and memory utilization of the grid, provides some context, shows where the actual work is happening, and can be used by developers, grid admins, and regular business u...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 0 Future consideration

MapR Support for Dask Component in Conductor

Version: 2.5.0Platform: x86Description: We'd like to request the development team to include MapR support for the Dask component of Conductor 2.5.0. We would like to be able to use the DataConnector to connect to MapR to read and write within a da...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 0 Future consideration

Patched Spark 2.4.3 as new micro version

Supporting multiple patched versions of Spark 2.4.3 on a cluster, in order to facilitate per SIG Spark 2.4.3_patchversion roll out. This will require a Spark 2.4.3_version for every new patch.
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 0 Future consideration

Update sparkling water notebook state in spectrum conductor once the cluster is unhealthy

H2O sparkling water is currently integrated within spectrum conductor but doesn't monitor the status of the H2O cluster to update the state of the sparkling water notebook even when the cluster status is unhealthy. We would like to make sure the s...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 0 Future consideration

Supporting block listing in Conductor Spark 2.3 and later

Blacklisting of hosts that had certain number of tasks or executor failures due to various reasons. This entails blocking hosts from taking more tasks and recording and notifying users for further investigation. This will also mean to reschedule f...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 0 Future consideration

Block hosts per resource status or add hosts blocking in Notebook configuration

Conductor failing to start notebooks remain in tentative as it is unable to detect the host mem/cpu usage. Need the feature in Notebook configuration to block hosts per resource status or add hosts blocking in Notebook configuration.
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4 4 Future consideration

Make spectrum conductor token viability duration configurable.

When we schedule jobs over the weekend to run for Monday morning, the jobs do not run on Monday morning as expected, but give "Expired Credentials" error. These credentials do not expire as they are service accounts. This happens also for Admin ac...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4 0 Future consideration

Accessing Dataconnector in conductor using python from GPU server

Hello Team, we have setup a connector in GPU to access HDFS from our CPU cluster. However, i am able to access the file in HDFS using spark but not using python. I would like to understand how to access HDFS using python commands. Connector Name: ...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 0 Future consideration

Cap the max slots in SIG

We have a requirement where we need to set a cap at the sig level so that no application can go above on the maximum number of slots. Use case===========At the SIG level I have set the SPARK_EGO_SLOTS_MAX: 10 which is the max allowable for any use...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4 0 Future consideration